Keep calm, refrain from violence

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday condemned the murder of a lawyer in the port city of Chattogram.
He has ordered an investigation into the killing and appropriate legal course, read a Facebook post of his Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam.
The CA has urged people to keep calm and refrain from engaging in any untoward activities, it said.

He has also ordered law enforcement agencies to step up security in the port city, including in all the vulnerable neighbourhoods.
The interim government is committed to ensuring and upholding communal harmony in Bangladesh at any cost, it added.
Earlier in the day, Saiful Islam, a 32-year-old lawyer was killed during a clash between police and followers of former ISKCON leader Chandan Kumar Dhar, alias Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, in the Chattogram Court Building area.
DON’T BE FOOLED BY CONSPIRATORS: HASNAT
Hasnat Abdullah, convener of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, urged people across the country to remain calm.
“Please stay patient and calm. Do not take the law into your own hands or create any kind of unstable environment,” Hasnat said this in his verified Facebook post yesterday.
“Our Bangladesh is a country of communal harmony. We will not allow anyone to disrupt this harmony under any circumstances.
“Since August 5, a certain group has been deliberately conspiring to create chaos in our country. Please do not get involved in internal conflicts and inadvertently pave the way for these conspirators to realise their heinous plans.”
In his Facebook post, Hasnat Abdullah demanded the immediate arrest and prosecution of Saiful’s killers.
Calling on everyone to remain calm, vigilant, and patient, he also urged that if any specific organisation is found involved in this murder, action must be taken against that organisation as well.
Meanwhile, in a separate Facebook post, Sarjis Alam, general secretary of July Shaheed Smrity Foundation, said if any individual, terrorist group, or organisation attempts to incite communal riots using religion as a “tool”, strict measures must be taken against them.
He said, “Whoever is involved, we demand the highest punishment for murder. No leniency for conspirators. Too much leniency will embolden them.”
Sarjis also emphasised that extremism should be judged not by religion but by the act of extremism itself.